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Articles 17121 through 17220 of 26855:
- Yojana Bengal (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 21, 2005)
Not by figures alone
West Bengal had sufficient reason to rejoice this week with the 24 per cent increase in the state’s annual plan.
- Flawed System (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 21, 2005)
In Kuala Lumpur last week Prime Minister Manmohan Singh indicated that India would soon open its retail sector to foreign investment.
- 5 Mps Asked To Stay Away From House (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
Somnath announces seven-member committee to probe latest sting operation
Matter referred to Ethics Committee in Rajya Sabha
It has impacted on dignity of Parliament: Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
MPs demand scrapping of Local Area Development Scheme
- Bangalore Gears Up For Women’S Safety (Tribune, Jangveer Singh, Dec 21, 2005)
The recent rape and murder of a woman BPO employee by a pick-up driver has exposed just how fragile the foundations of this edifice really are.
- Cheney Meets Musharraf, Expresses Solidarity (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
Visiting US Vice-President Dick Cheney today met Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and expressed grief over loss of lives in the massive October-8 earthquake and the destruction caused by it.
- The Israeli Puzzle (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 21, 2005)
Mr Benjamin Netanyahu’s election as Likud chief is bad news for peace in the Middle East. With Prime Minister Ariel Sharon out of Likud, Mr Netanyahu will be the most important challenger to Mr Sharon in elections due in March next.
- Pakistan: Indian Minister (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Dec 21, 2005)
Indian Commerce Minister Kamal Nath told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that all routes, including sea routes from Kandla and Mundra seaports in Gujarat, would be considered for increasing trade with Pakistan.
- Talks On Joint Survey Of Sir Creek Begin (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
The Pak-India Technical Experts meeting for the joint survey of the Sir Creek — one of the eight areas covered by Composite Dialogue Process — began on Tuesday here.
- Finally, A Sikh Becomes An Officer In Pak Army (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
A 19-year-old Sikh youth has become the first one from the minority community to become an officer in the Pakistan army.
- Cub Versus Tiger (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 21, 2005)
For long years, Raj Thackeray was the presumptive heir to the Shiv Sena throne. Bal Thackeray's nephew lived and breathed the Sena's street politics in a way his less demonstrative and more sophisticated son never could.
- Fast Vanishing Wealth - Ii (Greater Kashmir, Prof. (Dr.) R. D. Gupta, Dec 21, 2005)
We have a capital in the form of animal and plant kingdom in our state. It needs to be guarded from extinction, cautions Prof. (Dr.) R. D. Gupta
- Winds Of Change (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 21, 2005)
Bhutan’s moves towards democracy
NEW winds have been blowing in the Land of the Thunder Dragon, named after the storms that blow through the mountains and valleys of this Himalayan kingdom, for quite a few years now.
- A Modi-Cum Of Strategy (Indian Express, VIRENDER KUMAR, Dec 21, 2005)
When Narendra Modi announced that he was going to campaign in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation elections recently, Mukul Wasnik, AICC general secretary in charge of Gujarat, declared that they had won half the battle.
- India-Bharat Connectivity And Logging In To Hope (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Dec 21, 2005)
A mother fights back tears and asks the highest Constitutional authority in the land: Do you have a plan to ensure that no honest young Indian ever faces the hapless fate of my murdered son?
- About The Holy Capitalists (Deccan Herald, DAVID BROOKS, Dec 21, 2005)
The world’s greatest discoveries and innovations have had a strong relation to faith
- Weather Pattern Will The Biggest Challenge For India And China In 2006 (India Daily, Sudhir Chadda, Dec 21, 2005)
According to international think tanks, India and China will faced unimaginable bad weather patterns in coming years specially in 2006.
- More Mps Fall For Money (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
More MPs have been caught in a bribe scandal even before the probe into 11 of their fellow members taking cash to ask questions in Parliament is complete.
- Democracy D-Day In Kabul (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
Former warlords, ex-communists, Taliban defectors and women activists were sworn in today members of the first Afghan Parliament in over 30 years amid hopes of national reconciliation after decades of bloodshed.
- History, Democracy And Iraq (Dawn, Niall Ferguson, Dec 20, 2005)
I saw two of my former students last week; one I taught at Cambridge, the other at Oxford. One of them has spent the better part of the last three years on her majesty’s service in southern Iraq.
- Pak, India To Discuss Iran Gas Pipeline Project Structure In Feb (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
Pakistan and India will discuss the project structure of multi-billion Iran gas pipeline in the next joint working group meeting to be held here in February.
- Pak Rejects India's Objection To Reference To Kashmir At Oic (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
Rejecting India's objection to the reference of Kashmir issue at the OIC Summit, Pakistan today claimed the grouping of the Islamic countries "is well within its right" to discuss it as it is an "internationally recognised" dispute.
- Omar Raps New Delhi On ‘Fake’ Talks, Calls Congress ‘Mistress Of Mistakes’ (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Dec 20, 2005)
Elected as president of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (NC) for the second consecutive term of three years, Omar Abdullah today asked both, militants as well as security forces, allow peace to return without any more mayhem and bloodshed. Describing
- She Must Have A Mahram If She Goes For Hajj - I (Greater Kashmir, Dr Fiaz Maqbool Fazili, Dec 20, 2005)
Dr Fiaz Maqbool Fazili has some questions and answers about women going for Hajj and Umrah
Who is able enough to go for Hajj?
- West Asia Today (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Dec 20, 2005)
West Asia has relapsed into a pregnant pause, with the United States in an uncertain mood in its desire to build a New World Order. Although the Iraq quagmire has taken centre-stage in American concerns for reasons other than those envisaged, . . .
- Waltengu Calling (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 20, 2005)
At a time when everybody is talking about rehabilitation of quake survivors of Uri and Tangdar, hundreds of victims of Waltengu hamlet in Islamabad district, which was hit by snow-storm in February this year, have been forgotten by the government.
- Fast Vanishing Wealth - I (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 20, 2005)
We have a capital in the form of animal and plant kingdom in our state. It needs to be guarded from extinction, cautions Prof. (Dr.) R. D. Gupta
- Omar Re-Elected Nc Chief (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Dec 20, 2005)
Restoration of greater autonomy best solution to Kashmir dispute, he says
- Nda Decides To Oppose Reservation Bill (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
Government stand on minority institutions queers the pitch
Proposed legislation exempts minority institutions
Definition of minority institution not clear: BJP
Janata Dal (United) a divided house
- Polling By And Large Peaceful In First Phase Of Zilla And Taluk Panchayat Elections (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
Elections held in 14 districts; first reports put overall voting percentage at 65
- Next Round Of Indo-Pak Talks In Jan (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
Pakistan and India will hold the next round of composite dialogue in January, Pakistani foreign office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said on Monday.
- From The Blurb (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
Traditional Wisdom in Natural Resource Management - The Only Way to Conserve: Pub. by Rural Litigation & Entitlement Kendra; 68/1, Suryalok Colony, Rajpur Road, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal. Rs. 395.
- Short Stories In Translation (Hindu, Sarojini Premchand, Dec 20, 2005)
TAMILA CHINNA KATHALU - Anthology of Tamil Short Stories, Vol. 2: Akhilan — Editor; Y.V.S.S.N.Murthy — Tr. in Telugu; Pub. by Sahitya Academy, Ravindra Bhavan, 35, Ferozeshah Road,
- Autobiography (Hindu, V. Gopalakrishna, Dec 20, 2005)
An Autobiography: Thumbadi Ramaiah: Pub. by Bodhishree Prakashana, Behind Water Tank, Vidyanagara, Tumkur-572103. Rs. 65.
- Fatally Casual (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Dec 20, 2005)
The wretched part of the tragedy in Chennai that killed 42 people on Sunday is the shameful absence of any anger expressed by the government at the state level or by the Centre. Thousands had gathered at the school gates from the night before, queuing up
- Hasten With Care (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Dec 20, 2005)
All right-thinking persons will agree with the note of caution struck by Parliament's Standing Committee on External Affairs on preparing roadmap of peace with Pakistan.
- Roles Reversed (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 20, 2005)
Now Mamata badly needs an alliance
Politics has always made strange bedfellows, so that there is no reason to accept at face value Pranab Mukherjee’s argument that the Congress cannot do business with Trinamul because it has a formal alliance with . . .
- Hydrogen Engergy (Daily Excelsior, Pallab Bhattacharya, Dec 20, 2005)
When industrialist Ratan Tata submited the National Hydrogen Energy Road Map document to Union Non-Conventional Energy Minister Vilas Muttemwar on November 21, it represented another major stride taken by India in its quest not only for energy . . .
- Indo-Pak Talks On J&k Next Month (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Dec 20, 2005)
Elected as president of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (NC) for the second consecutive term of three years, Omar Abdullah today asked both, militants as well as security forces, allow peace to return without any more mayhem and bloodshed. Describing
- The Direction Of Love (Telegraph, Janaki Nair, Dec 20, 2005)
Linguistic nationalisms thrive on chastening women in the name of honour, argues Janaki Nair The author is professor of history, Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta
- Does Us Face An Engineering Gap? (Christian Science Monitor, Mark Clayton, Dec 20, 2005)
A new study deflates claims that China and India have a vast advantage in graduates
- Social Boycott Of Dalits Alleged (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
Joint Collector of Medak district Vani Mohan has assured the Kulavivaksha Vyatireka Porata sangham leaders that the administration will initiate action against villagers in Ajjamarri of Koudipally mandal for their alleged boycott of Dalits.
- Grant District Status To Kishtwar (Daily Excelsior, J R Aryan, Dec 20, 2005)
Today voice of Kishtwar for its District status still echoes from all its nooks and corners. Be it Wadwan, Marwah or Dachhan, Padder or Chhatroo, Sarthal or Banjwa, Nagseni, Thakrai or the Kishtwar HQ itself all have only one choice through one voice ....
- Melting Pot Of Cultures (Hindu, M. L. Nigam, Dec 20, 2005)
Academic homage to the splendid treasures of Gandhara art, many of which are no more to be seen
- Rs 40 Billion Plan To Boost Agriculture In Punjab, Says Elahi (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
A five-year Irrigation Sector Reforms programme costing Rs 40 billion will soon be launched to boost agriculture production across the province, Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said on Monday.
- Indian Contention Over Oic’S Kashmir Stance Rejected (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
The next round of composite dialogue between Pakistan and India is to begin tentatively next month. This was stated by the Foreign Office spokesperson, Ms. Tasnim Aslam at the weekly news briefing Monday afternoon.
- 6 Mps In Chakravyuh (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
GAMES MPS PLAY * MPs expect bribes while allotting projects * BJP leader demands 50 pc commission, settles for 45 pc * Cong MP seeks Rs 3-lakh bribe for Konkani project * SP leader asks a trapped MP to quit Lok Sabha
- Bjp Scared Of Uma’S New Party (India Daily, Preetam Sohani, Dec 20, 2005)
Run Uma run! Clean BJP and show the world the essence of true Hindutva. Let not funds from the privileged engulf you like they have trapped BJP!
- The Path Of Action (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
The Vedas, which are the scriptural authority of Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism), comprises two sections — the Karma kanda and the Jnana kanda.
- Weather Pattern Will The Biggest Challenge For India And China In 2006 (India Daily, Sudhir Chadda, Dec 20, 2005)
According to international think tanks, India and China will faced unimaginable bad weather patterns in coming years specially in 2006.
- Paving The Way For Islamistan (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Dec 20, 2005)
It is time ulemas got rid of their obsolete ideas and accepted ijtehad which was permitted in early Islamic tradition, says Prafull Goradia
- Close Inverted Quotas (Pioneer, Ajoy Bagchi, Dec 20, 2005)
Reservation in employment has failed to address key areas of human development and must be discarded, says Ajoy Bagchi
- Bjp Raises The Stakes In Uttar Pradesh (Hindu, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Dec 20, 2005)
Is the party's Nyay Yatra against criminalisation of politics in the State a clever manoeuvre to advance its Hindutva agenda without alienating its NDA partners?
- Secular Democracy Goes On Trial (Deccan Herald, Pankaj Mishra, Dec 20, 2005)
Orhan Pamuk’s case throws light upon the myth of a secular society
- Aphc Leaders’ Visit Put Off (News International, Muhammad Saleh Zaafir, Dec 20, 2005)
The much-awaited visit of leaders belonging to the moderate faction of All Parties Hurriyat Conference to Pakistan and Azad Kashmir has been postponed. The visit is expected to take place early next year.
- Nc Supports Demilitarisation (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Dec 20, 2005)
The National Conference, Jammu and Kashmir’s oldest political party and main opposition, said on Monday that it supported the idea of complete demilitarisation, self-governance and tripartite talks to settle the Kashmir issue.
- Jihad In Global Perspective (Hindu, KESAVA MENON, Dec 20, 2005)
Analyses the jihad in the context of the globalised world in which U.S. hegemonism is the major factor
- World Nuclear Disarmament (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 20, 2005)
Media tycoon and chairman of the UN Foundation Ted Turner has called for world nuclear disarmament. Addressing a Press conference in Islamabad, he said that all the eight nuclear States will have to be involved in the process of elimination of nuclear ...
- Recognising Jihad (Pioneer, Priyadarsi Dutta, Dec 20, 2005)
From its beginning, Islam has been a terrorist movement," said Martin Henriksen, spokesman of Danish People's Party (DF) on educational affairs. It is ironic that only a few days ago Mr Henriksen was appointed to that party post in place of . . .
- Saudi Women’S Rights (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 20, 2005)
Whether or not Saudi Arabian women are closer to achieving rights like being allowed to drive or even the right to vote in municipal elections can be gauged from King Abdullah’s statement on Sunday asking women “to be patient and reasonable in their....
- Next Round Of Indo-Pak Talks In Jan (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
Pakistan and India will hold the next round of composite dialogue in January, Pakistani foreign office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said on Monday.
- Can You Guess Who’S The Real Fake Here? (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Dec 20, 2005)
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- Caliph Of Heretic Muslim Sect Comes To India (Deccan Herald, O P Verma, Dec 20, 2005)
“Love for all, hatred for none,” is the central theme of Ahmadiyya Muslims, a sect of liberal Muslims that originated in 1908 in the obscure village of Qadian in Gurdaspur district of Punjab and is now spread over 180 countries with 200 million followers.
- Another Sting: Seven Mps Caught On Camera (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
It’s sting season. Elected representatives had barely recovered from ‘‘Operation Duryodhan’’, which exposed 11 MPs taking bribes in exchange for raising questions in Parliament, when a television channel on Monday unveiled "Operation Chakravyuh."
- Stage Set For Nuclear Separation Talks (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 20, 2005)
Manmohan was asked to choose from options put forth by the Department of Atomic Energy
Deal unlikely to be clinched this time
Additional rounds of technical talks needed
- Nine-Time Wonder (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Dec 20, 2005)
Even now I have no clue as to why the late Nikhil Chakravarthy asked me to bring letters of introduction from two MPs when I requested him for an opening in the India Press Agency.
- Deepening Indo-U.S. Academic Links (Hindu, K. Ramachandran, Dec 20, 2005)
North Carolina varsity in tie-up with Chennai-based RMK Engineering College
- Managing Waste Eco-Friendly (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
Garbage disposed of carefully and recycled as organic manure in Vizianagaram
- Third Round Of Dialogue In January (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 20, 2005)
The third round of India-Pakistan composite dialogue would be kicked off in New Delhi sometime in January.
- Making Csr Work (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Dec 19, 2005)
The subject of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is moving to the mainstream of managerial discussion. A recent CII summit exclusively devoted to the theme was evidence of this.
- Restrictions On Hajj (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 19, 2005)
IN A paper he co-authored in a recent issue of The Lancet, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss argues that a comprehensive prevention and control strategy is needed to check the growing national prevalence of diabetes, respiratory and cardiovascular d
- Logic Of Separation (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Dec 19, 2005)
The July 18, 2005, joint statement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George Bush was about exceptionalising from the NPT technology denial regime, a non-signatory of the treaty, and not about accommodating India as a nuclear weapon . . .
- Bengaluru, Not Bangalore (Pioneer, K Govindan Kutty , Dec 19, 2005)
In the process of renaming cities, how far back can we go down the lanes of history, wonders K Govindan Kutty
- Raj Thackeray Resigns From Shiv Sena (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
To announce formation of new outfit next year after touring Maharashtra
- Responding To A Public Health Challenge (Hindu, G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Dec 19, 2005)
There are nearly 70 million people with kidney disease of varying severity levels in India. Hypertension and diabetes, the main causative factors, need to be targeted.
- Raj Thackeray Quits Shiv Sena (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Dec 19, 2005)
Three weeks after he quit all posts in the Shiv Sena in protest against being sidelined, Raj Thackeray today formally walked out of the party.
- Unesco Report On Education Of Afghans: (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
A United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) research report stated that no centralised mechanism existed to streamline and standardise education for Afghan refugee children and teachers in Pakistan.
- Raj Thackeray Quits Shiv Sena (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
The Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena, once a major political force in Maharashtra, suffered the biggest blow of its 39-year history on Sunday when founder Balasaheb Thackeray's nephew Raj quit the party to protest his marginalisation and said . . .
- Policemen, Taliban Killed In Clashes (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
Four policemen and three suspected Taliban fighters were killed in two separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, police and a provincial official said on Sunday.
- Unesco Report On Education Of Afghans (Daily Times, Akhtar Amin, Dec 19, 2005)
A United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) research report stated that no centralised mechanism existed to streamline and standardise education for Afghan refugee children and teachers in Pakistan.
- Kbd: Parties Appear To Be Coming On Board (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 19, 2005)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has sounded positive to the effect that all political parties agree on the urgency to build new dams and the MQM supports the Government on this issue.
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